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This Old House plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey explains how to capture the heat buried deep in the ground. SUBSCRIBE to This Old House: http://bit.ly/SubscribeThisOldHouse Richard took a homeowner to visit a house that had a ground-source or "geo-thermal" heating and air conditioning system. During the heating season, this type of HVAC system uses a heat-pump to move heat from the ground into the house. In cooling season, the heat-pump runs in reverse, moving heat from the house into the ground. The geo-thermal heat pump that the homeowner had installed was manufactured by ClimateMaster [https://www.climatemaster.com/]. About Ask This Old House TV: Homeowners have a virtual truckload of questions for us on smaller projects, and we're ready to answer. Ask This Old House solves the steady stream of home improvement problems faced by our viewers—and we make house calls! Ask This Old House features some familiar faces from This Old …...more
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How a Geothermal Heat Pump Works | This Old House
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This Old House plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey explains how to capture the heat buried deep in the ground. SUBSCRIBE to This Old House: http://bit.ly/SubscribeThisOldHouse Richard took a homeowner to visit a house that had a ground-source or "geo-thermal" heating and air conditioning system. During the heating season, this type of HVAC system uses a heat-pump to move heat from the ground into the house. In cooling season, the heat-pump runs in reverse, moving heat from the house into the ground. The geo-thermal heat pump that the homeowner had installed was manufactured by ClimateMaster [https://www.climatemaster.com/]. About Ask This Old House TV: Homeowners have a virtual truckload of questions for us on smaller projects, and we're ready to answer. Ask This Old House solves the steady stream of home improvement problems faced by our viewers—and we make house calls! Ask This Old House features some familiar faces from This Old House, including Kevin O'Connor, general contractor Tom Silva, plumbing and heating expert Richard Trethewey, and landscape contractor Roger Cook. Looking for more step by step guidance on how to complete projects around the house? Join This Old House INSIDER to stream over 1,000 episodes commercial-free: https://bit.ly/2GPiYbH Plus, download our FREE app for full-episode streaming to your connected TV, phone or tablet: https://www.thisoldhouse.com/pages/st... Follow This Old House and Ask This Old House: Facebook: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHouseFB Twitter: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHouseTwitter http://bit.ly/AskTOHTwitter Pinterest: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHousePinterest Instagram: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHouseIG http://bit.ly/AskTOHIG For more on This Old House and Ask This Old House, visit us at: http://bit.ly/ThisOldHouseWebsite How a Geothermal Heat Pump Works | This Old House    / thisoldhouse  

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